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UNITED STATES SIMON SOHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 361,187, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed February 26, 1887. Serial No. 229,972.

To all whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, SIMON SoHEUER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York,

have invented a new and Improved Fan, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of fans that are composed o f a pair of telescoping tubes, the inner one of which receives the fanblade.

The improved fan is vso constructed that on depressing a button a spring will draw the fan-blade into the inner tube, and the fanblade will draw the inner into the outer tube.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement, hereinafter more fully pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a face view of my improved fan, showing the fau-blade distended. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section with fan-blade distended. Fig. 3 is a similar section with the fan-blade within the case, and Fig. 4 is a section at right angles to Fig. 3.

The letter @represents the outer, and b the inner, of a pair of telescoping tubes, both being open on top and preferably closed at the bottom. Within the lower end of the inner tube there is rigidly secured a block, c, connected to a spring, d, the free end of which (No model.)

' in suitable manner to the upper edge of tube 4o a, this being absolutely necessary for the working of the paris. d

The operation of the device is as follows:

The fan-blade z', being pulled out by a string, j, will, by spring h, carry the tube b with it until the button e is engaged by opening f. As the blade is, at its ends, connected to tube a, it will, on being Withdrawn, be also distended, so that when the further withdrawal of tube b is cheeked by button e the fan-blade 5o Will have arrived in its most distended position, as in Fig. l. By the withdrawal of the inner tube, the spring 7L will have become en panded; but it will be unable to act, because it cannot draw the fan-blade into tube b as long as such tube is locked outwardly in place.

It the fan is to be folded, the button e is depressed, to clear opening f. The spring h, acting upon the fan-blade, will now pull the blade into tube b, and such tube will by the 6o fan-blade be pushed into tube a until the parts arrive in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

A peculiarity of this construction is, that there is no direct springconnection between tubes a b, and that no baud or similar device is used to pull the fan-blade down.

Vhat I claim is- The combination of telescoping tubes a b and fan-blade i, entering tube b and secured 7 0 at 'i' to tube a, with the block c, spring d, and button c in the inner tube, and with the spring h, connecting the block c with fan-blade t', substantiallyas specified.

SIMON SGHEUER.`

Vitnesses:

ALFRED JoNeHMANs, F. v. BEIEsEN. 

